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This project is deeply centered around predicting the facial landmarks of a given face. We can accomplish a lot of things using these landmarks. From detecting eye-blinks in a video to predicting emotions of the subject. The applications, outcomes and possibilities of facial landmarks are immense and intriguing.
Using these predicted landmarks of the face, we can build appropriate features that will further allow us to detect certain actions, like using the eye-aspect-ratio (more on this below) to detect a blink or a wink, using the mouth-aspect-ratio to detect a yawn etc or maybe even a pout. In this project, these actions are programmed as triggers to control the mouse cursor.